Friends don't let friends start playing CS. If you hate yourself and enjoy wasting hours of your life and losing your hair for no real benefit... Yeah still don't get this game.
1.5k hours. I'm in too deep now. Save yourself.

+4000 hours since my review was written originally, CS has decidedly become my toxic relationship, no matter how down bad I am or how much she beats me I always come crawling back. Cheaters in every game? yes but surely the next game won't have one. Daddy Valve says VAC works so surely I can play just one without blatant cheats.

Then it happens, Vac live stops my match mid game for "unusual game play" and I get excited, maybe daddy VAC is real. But to my dismay, the very next day the same guy who got VAC Lived the day prior is in my match again with nothing but a 20 hour cool-down to show for it.

I'll reiterate my original statement, if you haven't gotten into CS, DON'T. If you're coming here to see if the game has gotten better and looking for an excuse to play again, there's nothing I can say to stop you because I am you and you are me. You will play again and there's no stopping you. Go ahead, 10k hour Timmy, just one more game, surely it'll be better now.